JoshuaGreen: SCOOP: Trump himself gave the go-ahead to Rosenstein to announce Russian indictments before his Putin summit in hopes it would strengthen his hand, via @JenniferJJacobs @cstrohm https://t.co/ucH1m5QwJQ

they didn't need his approval. he shouldn't have even been involved. they most likely told him it was going to happen and he said okay. or maybe he wanted to know who it was going to target so he could tell Putin and they could try to figure out from that what their exposure was.

man so many filings on big cases related to this shiat show. One on Wilbur Ross' case. One on the now defunct voter commission of Korbachs related to the preservation of the state voter data they received. One in the DNC v Russia et al. where they are serving Jared Kushner with a summons but he seems to be avoiding them. So they filed a complaint. it seems the 3rd time they tried he had the secret service send them away. they've been trying to serve him since april.

Hobodeluxe:man so many filings on big cases related to this shiat show. One on Wilbur Ross' case. One on the now defunct voter commission of Korbachs related to the preservation of the state voter data they received. One in the DNC v Russia et al. where they are serving Jared Kushner with a summons but he seems to be avoiding them. So they filed a complaint. it seems the 3rd time they tried he had the secret service send them away. they've been trying to serve him since april.

eurotrader:The DOJ has a rule for pretty much everything and consult the President before announcing an indictment I am willing to bet is against a rule. I do not have a US Attorney rule manual but others do.

They do. But I will bet that for indictments involving foreign individuals that may impact foreign policy, they get input from the White House that is usually not sought.

Because farking up foreign policy is the President's job, not the DOJ's.

He was likely advised of the pending indictment. He may have been given the choice of having it released after the summit. He chose BEFORE so he could apologize to Putin for it personally.

I believe that this happened. Of course, I also believe my 5yo nephew when he says "I meant to do that" after smacking himself in the face with a toy, so take my belief with a grain of salt. One of these should do the trick.

SurfaceTension:Benevolent Misanthrope: Since it was apparently Trump who said it, I now doubt the existence of Rod Rosenstein.

Which begs the question: if the Daily Mail reports on Donald Trump talking about the Daily Mail, is that how we trigger the Singularity?

No point trying.

The UniverseOS hypervisor detects the attempt to trigger an unhandled reality exception, pauses reality and edits the attempt out retroactively. Effective manifestations of this include the cosmic censorship hypothesis & Novikov self-consistency hypothesis.

We're not quite sure why it wasn't able to catch Barack Obama's Magical Time Machine... my sources claim to have once heard Obama mumble something about a Thompson hack.

ArkPanda:Cyberluddite: Why would the President be directing the timing of the issuance of indictments in any criminal investigation, let alone this one? Smells like bullshiat.

Because it could have major diplomatic effects? We're basically accusing Russia of doing what's in the indictment. Not that anything about this is normal.

As a general policy, it makes sense to me to inform a President of a significant set of criminal indictments against a foreign power's military officers, especially ahead of a scheduled Presidential visit to NATO (a principle foe of that foreign power) and a summit with that foreign power. In fact, it makes total sense to do so. The bizarre exception to this situation, beyond the seriousness of the foreign meddling itself, is that the meddling was to support the candidate that is currently the President. That makes it all awkward.

Nevertheless, while Trump himself disgusts me, the POTUS as an office needs to be treated as the head of state regardless coontil we kick his ass out). The consultation was therefore correct. The subsequent decision making process was grossly mishandled. The indictments should have been used to cancel the summit, increase sanctions, and launch strong counter-measures against future interference.

NateAsbestos:Hobodeluxe: man so many filings on big cases related to this shiat show. One on Wilbur Ross' case. One on the now defunct voter commission of Korbachs related to the preservation of the state voter data they received. One in the DNC v Russia et al. where they are serving Jared Kushner with a summons but he seems to be avoiding them. So they filed a complaint. it seems the 3rd time they tried he had the secret service send them away. they've been trying to serve him since april.